Will Rent Control Expire on June 15 Too?

By William Rowen

Whether or not rent control expires on June 15 along with the rent-stabilization laws depends on which legal expert you talk to.

Tenant supporters state that the 71,000 remaining rent-controlled apartments will not be subject to decontrol if the rent laws are allowed to expire on June 15, because the rent-control law was renewed at the sole discretion of the New York City government and does not need the approval of the state to continue them.

However, should the Republicans do the unthinkable and allow all the laws to expire on June 15, it is safe to say that the real-estate industry would immediately claim that the expiration also applies to rent control, and would sue to enforce that position.

Honest opinion on both sides states that there is no definitive answer to the question. Whether the government’s eventual position favors either landlords or tenants, the other side will be anxious to challenge that position in court.

In fact, Republicans will probably not simply allow the laws to expire. They are more likely to forge a compromise with the Democrats that extracts as much damage to the laws as they can get. But the 1.1 million rent-stabilized apartments are targeted for most of the changes. Because rent-controlled tenants are mostly elderly, on fixed incomes, and predominantly women, negotiated changes in the rent laws would probably exclude rent control, leaving it much the same as it is. Still, the Republican drive to get rid of all rent regulation could limit the continuation of rent control to a specific number of years.


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